Mr. Memon is the founder of
Muslims For A Safe America, and works as a civil
rights attorney in Chicago. He has represented
Muslim victims of discrimination before and after
9/11. He is a member of the Illinois Advisory
Committee to the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights. He
is a co-founder of the Muslim Bar Association of
Chicago and CAIR-Chicago. He is a former host of
Radio Islam on WCEV 1450 AM in Chicago. His weekly,
hour-long talk show dealt primarily with Islam and
national security.

Arnold Romeo works with the Chicago
Commission on Human Relations, Advisory Council on
African Affairs

Speaker Event:

"National Security and the Constitution"

Guest Speakers:

Former Senator Gary
Hart

When: Wednesday, February
28th

Time: 3:00 pm

Where: Abraham
Lincoln Marovitz Courtroom

Reception to follow

Co-sponsored by the
ACS

Senator Hart served in the U.S. Senate from 1975
to 1987. During his 12 years in the Senate, he
served as a member of the Senate Armed Services
Committee, where he specialized in issues related
nuclear arms control. He also played a leadership
role with regard to major environmental and
conservation legislation, military reform
initiatives, new initiatives to advance the
information revolution and new directions in foreign
policy.

Since his retirement from elected office, Senator
Hart has been extensively involved in international
law and business, as a strategic advisor to major
U.S. corporations, and as an author and lecturer. He
served as a co-chair of the U.S. Commission on
National Security for the 21st Century, which
performed one of the most comprehensive reviews of
national security since 1947 and proposed a sweeping
overhaul of U.S. national security structures and
policies.

Senator Hart was president of Global Green, the
U.S. affiliate of former Soviet leader Mikhail
Gorbachev's environmental foundation, Green Cross
International. He is a founding member of the board
of directors of the U.S.-Russia Investment Fund; a
former member of the Defense Policy Board; and a
member of the Council on Foreign Relations. He was
co-chair of the Council of Foreign Affairs task
force that produced the report “America
Unprepared--America Still at Risk” in October 2002.
Senator Hart is currently a member of the National
Academy of Sciences Task Force on Science and
Security.